Case: I-130/I-485
Potential Issue: Response to Notice of Intent to Deny
Client: Cameroonian
Location: Fayetteville, NC
Our client entered the United States from Cameroon. She married her U.S. citizen husband and they filed an I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application to the USCIS in April 2018. In July 2021, they appeared at the adjustment of status interview at the USCIS Durham Field Office in North Carolina. However, on October 13, 2021, the USCIS issued a Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID). The NOID claimed that there was substantial and probative evidence that the marital union between the Petitioner and Beneficiary was not bona fide. The NOID pointed out that the submitted documentation of Petitioner and Beneficiary did not establish a bona fide marriage.
In response to the USCIS’s NOID, our office included multiple supporting documents including, several affidavits from their friends, joint bank account statements, a joint tax return, and several pictures of our client and her husband in several occasions with different people. Several legal authorities were cited based on particular issues discussed, and on November 5, 2021, we filed the Response to NOID prior to the 30-day deadline.
On February 18, 2022, the USCIS approved our client’s case. Both the I-130 Petition and I-485 Green Card Applications were approved. Our client is now a green card holder.